The Mystic of Friendship: Divining the Present in Settler Amazonia - Couverture souple

Lebner, Ashley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022684577X ISBN 13 : 9780226845777

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2025

Synopsis

A vivid portrait of how divine and human intimacies sustain colonization in the Amazon.

On Brazil’s Amazonian frontier, settlers pursue land and opportunity, but they also gather for prayer and pilgrimage, yearning for a deep relationship with God and one another. In this book, anthropologist Ashley Lebner examines how everyday religious practices and feelings, what she calls a mystic of friendship, shape and sustain colonization in the Amazon.

Lebner invites us to a stretch of highway in Pará, Brazil, where violent colonization coexists with prophetic dreams, Afro-Brazilian prayers, and emerging evangelicalism. She shows how, amid political tensions and physical hardship, settlers believe that the violence they experience and enact derives from the bestial nature of earthly life that must be overcome. In exposing a longing for divinely-infused friendship that animates colonization, Lebner offers a powerful new perspective on the forces driving colonialism as much as religious and political expression.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ashley Lebner is associate professor of religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022684577X
• ISBN 13: 9780226845777
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
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